World Bank President Robert Zoellick speaks at a news conference at the World Bank office during his visit in Beijing Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. Zoellick said Wednesday he will press Group of 20 leaders at a summit this month for more aid to developing countries, which he said can help drive a global recovery. AP Photo logo AP Photo 2 months ago

World Bank President Robert Zoellick speaks at a news conference at the World Bank office during his visit in Beijing Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. Zoellick said Wednesday he will press Group of 20 leaders at a summit this month for more aid to developing countries, which he said can help drive a global recovery.

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  1. Managing Director of The World Bank, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala addresses the audience during her speech during the Emerging Markets Summit, a two-day conference in London, on September 17, 2009.
  2. The President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick (R) and Australia's Treasury Minister, Wayne Swan, arrive for the dinner of the G20 Finance Ministers' meeting at the Guildhall in the City of London, September 4, 2009. World finance leaders shifted their focus from crisis fighting to banking reform on Friday as evidence mounted that the worst global recession in decades was finally drawing to a close.
  3. World Bank President Robert Zoellick speaks at a news conference at the World Bank office during his visit in Beijing Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. Zoellick said Wednesday he will press Group of 20 leaders at a summit this month for more aid to developing countries, which he said can help drive a global recovery.
  4. Chinese women works at the World Bank office in Beijing Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. World Bank President Robert Zoellick said in Beijing Wednesday he will press Group of 20 leaders at a summit this month for more aid to developing countries, which he said can help drive a global recovery.
  5. World Bank President Robert Zoellick arrives for a news conference at the World Bank office in Beijing Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. Zoellick said Wednesday he will press Group of 20 leaders at a summit this month for more aid to developing countries, which he said can help drive a global recovery.
  6. World Bank President Robert Zoellick speaks at a news conference at the World Bank office during his visit in Beijing Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. Zoellick said Wednesday he will press Group of 20 leaders at a summit this month for more aid to developing countries, which he said can help drive a global recovery.
  7. World Bank President Robert Zoellick reacts during a news conference at the World Bank office in Beijing Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. Zoellick said Wednesday he will press Group of 20 leaders at a summit this month for more aid to developing countries, which he said can help drive a global recovery.
  8. World Bank President Robert Zoellick (L) shakes hands with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at Zhongnanhai in Beijing, September 1, 2009. China's economy is at a crucial juncture in its recovery and the government will not change its policy direction, Premier Wen Jiabao was cited as saying by Xinhua News Agency when meeting World Bank President Robert Zoellick. Picture taken September 1, 2009.
  9. World Bank's Vice President for Africa Obiageli Ezekwesili talks during an interview with Reuters in Kenya's capital Nairobi, November 25, 2009. Africa's economic recovery can be quickened if governments invest in core infrastructure projects and China's investment on the continent is welcomed, Ezekwesili said on Wednesday.
  10. World Bank's Vice President for Africa Obiageli Ezekwesili talks during an interview with Reuters in Kenya's capital Nairobi, November 25, 2009. Africa's economic recovery can be quickened if governments invest in core infrastructure projects and China's investment on the continent is welcomed, Ezekwesili said on Wednesday.
  11. World Bank's Vice President for Africa Obiageli Ezekwesili talks during an interview with Reuters in Kenya's capital Nairobi, November 25, 2009. Africa's economic recovery can be quickened if governments invest in core infrastructure projects and China's investment on the continent is welcomed, Ezekwesili said on Wednesday.
  12. A woman works in a vegetable field in New Delhi November 25, 2009. The World Bank will start a trust fund to boost agriculture in poor countries with an initial $1.5 billion, its president Robert Zoellick said on Tuesday, warning of the risk of another food price crisis.
  13. A child seen in the village of Buroje, in central Kosovo, November 10, 2009. Over the past decade Kosovo has received 3 billion euros in aid, according to the World Bank, and is expecting another billion by 2011. Still the country is one of the poorest countries in Europe with 40 percent unemployment rate and 15 percent of its two million people live in extreme poverty with less than a euro per day. Picture taken November 10, 2009.
  14. World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President Justin Yifu Lin speaks at "the Korean G-20 Leadership" conference in Seoul November 17, 2009.
  15. World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President Justin Yifu Lin speaks at "the Korean G-20 Leadership" conference in Seoul November 17, 2009.
  16. Former Managing Director of World Bank, Mamphela Ramphele, speaks during the Youth Engagement Summit 2009 in Putrajaya outside Kuala Lumpur November 16, 2009.

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